Bai Youwei’s face immediately changed.
She glared fiercely at the Inspector: “What’s outside?!”
“Besides flowers, what else could be here?” The Inspector smiled slightly and didn’t answer her question.
Bai Youwei bit her lower lip, her eyes staring coldly and eerily at the other three. “If anything happens to my brother, none of you should think about living! I can’t kill the Inspector, but I have plenty of ways to kill you!”
“That card wasn’t written by us!” Wu Lili urgently pointed at Zhu Xiaofen beside her. “She wrote it! It has nothing to do with us. If you want to blame someone, blame her!”
“Don’t you know there’s a word called ‘displaced anger’?” Bai Youwei’s lips curved obliquely, her eyes cold as ice. “But don’t worry—I won’t survive either. We’ll all accompany my brother in death!”
“What’s wrong with you?! Are you sick?!” Wu Lili was both angry and anxious. “Crazy!!!”
“Enough!” Zhang Qi irritably spoke up. “Just follow the rules! As long as the remaining black cards are fine, there’s still an 80% chance!”
Somehow, Wu Lili’s eyes flashed with panic. “Then… what if they’re not fine?”
Zhang Qi was stunned, then flew into a rage. “You didn’t write as required either?! What the hell did you write?!”
Wu Lili’s tears flowed even more fiercely as she cried and explained: “I didn’t… I did write as required, but maybe, maybe she and her brother didn’t write as required!”
Zhang Qi no longer believed her. He demanded: “Did you write as required or not?”
“Yes, I wrote it, really… really…” Wu Lili nodded desperately while crying.
“You’d better have written it!” Zhang Qi said viciously. “Otherwise, even if I die, I’ll drag you down with me!”
Wu Lili was both shocked and frightened, covering her face as tears kept flowing.
At this time, the roaring and fighting sounds outside became increasingly obvious. The heavy impact sounds were alarming. Even without seeing the scene, they could feel the intense battle.
Bai Youwei’s heart tightened.
She believed Shen Mo would be fine, but her heart was beating wildly, completely out of control.
She and Shen Mo had puzzle pieces. As long as they used the puzzle’s immunity privilege, they could immediately leave the game.
But now, the commotion outside was only getting louder. Clearly, Shen Mo had given up on using the puzzle—he was tangling with something…
While her heart was anxious, a pink shadow suddenly crashed in!
Bang!
The thing fell in the center of the dance floor, knocking down several dolls!
Bai Youwei suddenly felt it was very noisy around her. Although the dolls were all motionless, their voices were like invisible ghosts—those light, ethereal talking sounds filled the air, endlessly continuing—
“He did it! He did it!”
“He completed the Dare!…”
“Look, he killed a friend’s man-eating flower!…”
“He really did it…”
The Inspector raised both hands and lightly clapped. Those voices then vanished like a receding tide.
Shen Mo walked in from outside.
His eyes were very dark and also very calm. His T-shirt had been torn by something, with blood stains on his arm and his hair soaked with sweat, showing some dishevelment—even so, he didn’t look the least bit embarrassed. Instead, he carried the imposing aura of a victor’s return.
He walked in with steady steps, picked up that slightly twitching thing from the dance floor, gave it a light shake, and threw it in front of Zhu Xiaofen.
“Your flower.” Shen Mo said indifferently.
It was a flower as thick as an elephant’s trunk. The stem was dark green, the flower bud pink—exactly the kind they had seen when entering the courtyard.
At this moment, the bud was half-split open, like a crumpled ball of cotton batting, revealing layer upon layer of dense teeth inside, dripping pale green mucus.
Zhu Xiaofen couldn’t even make a sound. She just desperately shrank her legs, tears flowing non-stop, terrified that the man-eating flower would suddenly jump up and bite her when it twitched next!
And Shen Mo had already returned to his seat.
